#130 - The Falling Man (Covent Garden, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is about the investigation into the death of Joseph Wootton. Was it an accident, or was it a murder? As although his peculiar death was resolved in a court of law and the culprit caught, the question which stumped the Police wasn’t how did he die, but why?
- Date: Friday 3rd March 1899
- Location: Room 84, Fourth Floor, Sardinia Buildings,19 to 21 Little Wild Street, London, UK, WC2 (demolished in 1910's, now Keeley Street, with the body found on Wild Court)
- Victims: 1 (Joseph Wootton)
- Culprits: Michael Joseph Holland
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of |
| 0:14.6 | of London's untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders. All set within and beyond the West End. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's episode is about the investigation into the death of Joseph Wooten. |
| 0:30.7 | Was it an accident or was it a murder? As although his peculiar death was resolved in a court |
| 0:37.3 | of law and the culprit was caught, |
| 0:40.1 | the question which stumped the police wasn't how did he die, but why? |
| 0:47.4 | Murdomali's research used in the original police files. |
| 0:51.1 | It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. |
| 1:08.7 | My name is Michael. I'm your tour guide, and this is Murder Mile. |
| 1:16.7 | Episode 130, The Falling Man. |
| 1:34.7 | Today... Today, I'm standing in Wild Court, W.C.2. |
| 1:39.5 | One road north of the brutal baker Alexander Moyer. |
| 1:43.1 | One road south of the first eight killers' home. one road west of where Marianne Moriarty |
| 1:47.0 | dispatched her boozy bow, and a short walk south from the strange case of Annie Polk. |
| 1:55.0 | Coming soon to murder mile. |
| 2:00.0 | Squirrelled away from the hectic bustle of Coffam Garden Market, and squeezed amidst the forgotten |
| 2:05.6 | grey gloom of Wild Street, Kemble Street and Kingsway, sits wild court. |
| 2:11.6 | A thin dark alley snuck between the backs of the Freemasons Hall and city-lit, |
| 2:16.6 | like a cruel afterthought by the |
| 2:18.6 | town's planners. Being barely ten feet wide, and with only a crack of sky, peeping through the |
| 2:26.0 | concrete monsters above, wild court is so depressing that the rats can't be asked. The fleas have resigned, any wee-wee stains have whittled |
| 2:36.8 | away, and even COVID is claiming sick pay. With an entrance on Little Wild Street, Wild Court |
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